Spies told to come clean on Cameron’s order to kill

Reyaad Khan, from Cardiff, was killed by a Hellfire missile fired by a Reaper drone

The MPs who are investigating the country’s first extrajudicial killing of a British jihadist in a drone strike in Syria have accused the intelligence services of holding back information about the threat he posed and the risk of “collateral damage” during the strike.

The intelligence and security committee (ISC), headed by the former attorney-general Dominic Grieve, has warned intelligence officials that it is “dissatisfied” with the information they have provided so far on the 2015 attack.

The ISC submitted its draft report to Downing Street in December expressing its frustration. The intelligence services claim the committee is going beyond its remit by questioning the military decision-making behind the drone attack rather than focusing on the intelligence.

At the heart of the dispute are concerns that…

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